Share Your Thoughts About AR (for the Average Tolkien Fan)
-
Primula Baggins
- Living in hope
- Posts: 40005
- Joined: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:43 am
- Location: Sailing the luminiferous aether
- Contact:
We're glad you're here, too, Andy! 
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
(I can't post in the appropriate forum apparently, so I'm posting here.)
I'm back to reading; I said it was taking me a long time, because I'm rereading the Sil along with AR. And I have to be in the right mood to read the Sil.
One thing that struck me was that you were very even-handed, Voronwë. Your positive comments regarding Christopher's choices were as easily given as your criticisms.
I'm back to reading; I said it was taking me a long time, because I'm rereading the Sil along with AR. And I have to be in the right mood to read the Sil.
One thing that struck me was that you were very even-handed, Voronwë. Your positive comments regarding Christopher's choices were as easily given as your criticisms.
-
Voronwë the Faithful
- Aurë entuluva! Day shall come again!
- Posts: 48227
- Joined: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:41 am
- Contact:
-
Primula Baggins
- Living in hope
- Posts: 40005
- Joined: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:43 am
- Location: Sailing the luminiferous aether
- Contact:
I'd say that's human nature, when any criticism is offered of something we greatly value. We don't necessarily even notice positive comments, because we are so eager to dispute the negative ones (or at least to find out more about the reasons for them).
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
(The part where you say that even Tolkien said a reader could skip this chapter!)-
Voronwë the Faithful
- Aurë entuluva! Day shall come again!
- Posts: 48227
- Joined: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:41 am
- Contact:
-
Primula Baggins
- Living in hope
- Posts: 40005
- Joined: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:43 am
- Location: Sailing the luminiferous aether
- Contact:
It's Tolkien's "begats."
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
I just wanted to let you know that I finished it last night. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would, mostly because I opted to read the Sil alongside of AR. And I have to be in the right mood to read the Sil.
Thank you, again, for taking the time to write this book, Voronwë. I learned so much!
I will be reading Morgoth's Ring next, since I want to read the Athrabeth for myself.
It took me a lot longer than I thought it would, mostly because I opted to read the Sil alongside of AR. And I have to be in the right mood to read the Sil.Thank you, again, for taking the time to write this book, Voronwë. I learned so much!
I will be reading Morgoth's Ring next, since I want to read the Athrabeth for myself.
-
Voronwë the Faithful
- Aurë entuluva! Day shall come again!
- Posts: 48227
- Joined: Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:41 am
- Contact:
Wow, that's perserverence! I'm glad that you appreciated the book, Lali!
Once you have had a chance to read the Athrabeth for yourself, please go to the Athrabeth thread in the Shibboleth forum, and post your thoughts there!
Once you have had a chance to read the Athrabeth for yourself, please go to the Athrabeth thread in the Shibboleth forum, and post your thoughts there!
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."